Health

Two facilities assisting Wisconsin veterans who don’t have housing are set to close at the end of September due to ongoing deficits and a political battle over state funding.

Special Olympics Wisconsin has joined an international effort aimed at improving health care quality and access for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Public Health Madison & Dane County officials recently launched a program to use dating apps and social media to notify people of possible exposure to sexually transmitted infections. 

A recent state Supreme Court decision could be just the beginning of a broader legal fight to expand abortion access in Wisconsin.

As of 2024, more than 1,200 people in Wisconsin were waiting for a life-saving kidney transplant. A number of Wisconsinites have chosen to donate to others while still living — even if the donors don’t know who the organ might go to.

A board that investigated a 2018 explosion at the Superior oil refinery is slated for elimination under President Donald Trump’s proposed 2026 budget.

In Wisconsin, deaths tied to liver cirrhosis from drinking alcohol jumped more than a third from 2019 to 2023.

As Wisconsinites hit the beach this summer, a new report finds 77 percent of Great Lakes beaches in the state tested as potentially unsafe for swimming on at least one day last year.

Jim Conway, a professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, says health providers in the state are watching the situation closely.

Health policy experts are concerned that the law’s new requirements will remove qualified BadgerCare recipients from the program and raise premium prices for people with marketplace coverage.